Progress report checklist

Required components

This checklist is for your use only. Use it to ensure you have completed what you are required to do. Do not submit this to the Commissioner.

See the 2026 Progress report assessment rubric(opens in a new window) to understand what your progress report will be assessed against.

Did you include the following required components?

Attestation by your head of organisation on the accuracy of your progress report and confirmation that all required GIAs were undertaken.

The attestation must be signed by the CEO or equivalent with their name, role title, signature and date of sign off.
If you have a designed version of your progress report, your attestation must be included as per the wording in the guidance.
Visit Attestation by head of organisation (required)(opens in a new window) for further information.

Adequate details of public-facing policies, programs and services subject to a gender impact assessment (GIAs)

You must individually list all policies, programs or services:

  • that had a direct and significant impact on the public, and
  • that had a GIA undertaken on them during the reporting period (1 July 2023 – 30 June 2025), and
  • where the GIA was completed during the reporting period. Include unfinished GIAs in your next progress report.
Provide enough context about the policies, programs or services to ensure the initiative is clear.
You must describe the action(s) you took as a result of the GIA, and these actions must clearly relate to gender equality. The links between the action taken and gender equality must be explicit, or a reasonable person must be able to see the relationship between the two.
Only include actions that had already been taken or were planned by 30 June 2025. If no final decision had been made about whether to change the policy, program or service, the GIA should be included in the next progress report.
Where no actions were taken, you must explain why.
Explain how intersectionality was considered or why it wasn’t.
If you have not reported on any GIAs, you must select a permitted reason and explain how it applies to your organisation.
Visit Step 1: Reporting on gender impact assessments(opens in a new window) for further information.

Adequate progress data against each indicator, using your 2023 and 2025 audit data (ideally the performance measures), to demonstrate progress

You must include data to demonstrate your progress.

Progress data means:

  • including comparative data from (at least) your 2023 and 2025 audits
Progress data must be provided against all indicators.
For duty holders with no governing body, you do not have to include data for indicator 2. You must clearly state that your organisation does not have a governing body.

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Adequate explanation of progress (or lack of) against each indicator

Your description must clearly explain why changes in the data show progress (or not) towards gender equality.
If progress was not made, use the listed factors to explain why. You must clearly describe how the factor(s) relate to your organisation.
If you have made genuine efforts to make progress, but you have not seen a positive change in your data, explain these efforts.

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Strategies listed against each indicator

List at least one strategy against each indicator. Listed strategies must have been undertaken during the reporting period (1 July 2023 – 30 June 2025). However, they may have started before, or continued after, this period.

Explanation of incomplete strategies

Summarise any planned strategies for the reporting period (1 July 2023 – 30 June 2025) that were incomplete or cancelled by 30 June 2025.
You do not need to list all unfinished strategies, but you must provide the total number.
Enough information must be provided to understand why any strategies weren’t completed as planned.
If all strategies were completed, write N/A.
Visit Step 3: Reporting on GEAP strategies(opens in a new window) for further information.

Adequate explanation of resourcing allocation

Describe the resourcing allocated to implementing the strategies in your first GEAP.

Explanation may include:

  • the number of staff members/FTE allocated to implementing the strategies
  • the roles and levels of those with responsibility to implement the GEAP
  • whether the financial, technological, physical and/or time resourcing was adequate
  • if not, how you will address this in your next GEAP
Visit 3.4 Describing resourcing allocation(opens in a new window) for further information.

Additional standards

These standards do not impact compliance. But the Commissioner may ask for a resubmission or further information where relevant.

All required components of the template are filled in

Your progress report is submitted using the 2026 progress report template

Your progress report is submitted by the due date (1 May 2026) or with an approved extension

Progress reports are due by 1 May 2025.
Duty holders must submit(opens in a new window) through the reporting platform(opens in a new window) by this date, unless an approved extension is granted.

Adequate explanation of how intersectionality was considered in your gender impact assessments (GIAs)

For each policy, program or service you listed, explain how you considered intersectionality in the GIA, or why you did not consider intersectionality.
Enough information must be provided to understand how intersectionality was considered, or why it was not considered.

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